Setting up a VPN connection to FRITZ!Box in Apple OS iOS (e.g. iPhone)

VPN (Virtual Private Network) allows you to establish a secure connection over the internet from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your FRITZ!Box and then access all of the devices and services in the home network of your FRITZ!Box.

In addition, whenever a VPN connection is active, all internet queries from the iOS device are routed over the FRITZ!Box. This guarantees tap- and tamper-proof communication when using all web services, such as email and online banking, in a public wireless hotspot with your iOS device.

Note:In this guide we show you how to configure a VPN connection to the FRITZ!Box using an iPhone 5 with iOS 9.2. If you have further questions on VPN connections in iOS, contact Apple directly.

Requirements / Restrictions

Important:The FRITZ!Box is not accessible from the internet over IPv4 when used on a DS-Lite internet connection. When DS-Lite is active, the status "IPv4 over DS Lite" is displayed under "Connections" on the "Overview" page of the FRITZ!Box user interface.

Note:The configuration procedure and notes on functions given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for your FRITZ!Box.

1 Preparations

Setting up MyFRITZ!

With MyFRITZ! you can even access your FRITZ!Box over the internet at all times if the FRITZ!Box receives a different public IP address from your internet service provider on a regular basis:

Note:If you already use a different dynamic DNS service, you can also use this service instead of MyFRITZ!.

Adjusting the FRITZ!Box's IP network

Both ends of a VPN connection must have IP addresses from different IP networks. VPN communication cannot occur if your iOS device is connected to a router (for example another FRITZ!Box) with the same IP network as your FRITZ!Box.

Note:All FRITZ!Boxes use the IP network 192.168.178.0 in the factory settings.

Assign an IP address to your FRITZ!Box that is not the same as the IP addresses of the routers used by your iOS device to connect the FRITZ!Box, for example 192.168.10.1 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0):